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02/11/2018, Porsche and Audi are just two of the several brands owned by auto giant Volkswagen. The two brands already share car components between them, for example, the Porsche Cayenne and Macan have the same chassis as the Audi Q7 and Q5, and this sharing between...

02/08/2018, Tesla initially planned on doing a coast-to-coast autonomous drive in the United States by the end of 2017 but that didn’t happen. The company has long touted the advanced semi-autonomous driving functionality of its all-electric cars and it will...

02/07/2018, The Sprinter van isn’t as well known as some of the other Mercedes vehicles because it’s meant for an entirely different segment of the market, one that’s not concerned with how fast it can go and how many people you can carry in it. As...

02/04/2018, While some Tesla owners are completely in love with their cars and can’t find any faults in them, there are many that have been irked by fit and finish issues. Similar complaints have been made about the Tesla Model 3 as well, the company’s...

02/04/2018, Commonly referred to as a flying car, Airbus has been working on an all-electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft called Vahana for a couple of years now. The company had said that it would test Vahana by the end of 2017 but it missed that deadline...

02/01/2018, In order to make it so that self-driving cars can become legal and available to the masses, a lot of testing needs to be done, and usually testing involves taking the self-driving cars on the road and testing them out in real-life conditions. That’s...

02/01/2018, As it stands it is a rule in which all companies that wish to test self-driving cars are required to have a human driver behind the wheel. This is a safety net of sorts where in the event something goes wrong, the human driver can easily takeover control...

01/31/2018, Uber is probably best known for its ride-sharing services, whether it be cars or even motorbikes (in some countries). However it looks like Uber is now branching into bicycles where in a partnership with JUMP, they have announced a new bike-sharing...

01/31/2018, Harley-Davidson is an iconic American motorcycle manufacturer that has a very passionate customer base. Four years after unveiling its LiveWire project which was an all-electric motorcycle prototype used in the Avengers movie series, the company has...

01/31/2018, If you’ve ever been in a car accident, then you know how troublesome it can be. In some cases a police report needs to be filed before you can file for an insurance claim, and all that paperwork and driving around can be rather taxing, or in some cases...

01/30/2018, Many believe that the internal combustion engine is on its way out. Major car companies are heavily investing in all-electric solutions that will power the cars of the future but Mazda is not ready to give up on the internal combustion engine just yet....

01/30/2018, It seems that Alphabet’s Waymo is looking to build up a pretty sizable fleet of self-driving cars because in an announcement by carmaker Fiat Chrysler, both companies have reached a deal which will see Waymo buy “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica...

01/29/2018, The aviation industry has been experimenting with cleaner-burning fuels to lower the carbon footprint of flights. We’re far from a complete switch to biofuels but work continues to make that a possibility at some point in the future. Case in point:...

01/28/2018, If there ever was a reason why self-driving cars have yet to become mainstream and commercialized (aside from the technology still being worked on), it is because there are rules and laws that need to be tweaked and added in order to make them fit in a...